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WHY DEMOCRATS CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH ELECTIONS ON ANY LEVEL

Why should we be surprised when billions of dollars targeted at remedying the illiteracy, poverty, disease, and crime somehow wind up in the pockets of politically-connected politicians? Or why Chicago politicians bleat about racism, police brutality, and do absolutely nothing to clean up the inner city cesspools where people, mostly in the minority community, are slaughtered on a weekly basis? Why did our first black U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, ignore the systemic abuse of fellow blacks and others in Chicago while going after institutional racism? And why should we be surprised when Democrats interfere in local, state, and federal elections?

Here is how the Democrats engage in provable election fraud they say does not exist…

A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way

The David is David Krupa, 19, a freshman at DePaul University who drives a forklift part time. He’s not a political powerhouse. He’s just a conservative Southwest Side teenager studying political science and economics who got it in his head to run for alderman in a race that pits him against the most powerful ward organization in Chicago.

The Goliath is the 13th Ward Democratic Organization run by House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, aka Boss Madigan, the most powerful politician in the state. Boss Madigan has long hand-picked his aldermen. He likes them loyal and quiet. The current silent alderman of the 13th Ward is Marty Quinn.

“I’m from Clearing,” Krupa told me. “All I want to do is get on the ballot to address the serious issues we have, from public safety to taxes. People don’t want to say things out loud here. People who’ve challenged the 13th Ward get intimidated. You know the neighborhood.”

To get on the ballot, Krupa was required to file 473 valid signatures of ward residents with the Chicago Board of Elections. Krupa filed 1,703 signatures.

But before he filed his signatures with the elections board, an amazing thing happened along the Chicago Way.

An organized crew of political workers — or maybe just civic-minded individuals who care about reform — went door to door with official legal papers. They asked residents to sign an affidavit revoking their signature on Krupa’s petition.

Revocations are serious legal documents, signed and notarized. Lying on a legal document is a felony and can lead to a charge of perjury. If you’re convicted of perjury, you may not work for a government agency. And I know that there are many in the 13th Ward on the government payroll.

More than 2,700 revocations were turned over to the elections board to cancel the signatures on Krupa’s petitions. Chicago Board of Elections officials had never seen such a massive pile of revocations.

“The board has received a few revocations here and there in very rare electoral board cases over the years,” said election board spokesman Jim Allen.

But more than 2,700? Impossible, no?

“They're pretty rare, and no one can remember anything approaching this volume of filings in past cases,” Allen said. “For the board, the next step is to begin the hearings on all of the objections that have been filed against any candidates' nominating petitions. We can't speculate, though, on the legitimacy or any other legal questions about any of the objections or the corresponding petitions.”

The number of revocations far exceeds the number of signatures Krupa collected. That means false affidavits were filed with the elections board.

Why would thousands of people lie on a legal document of revocation, and say they’d signed Krupa’s petitions, when they didn’t sign Krupa’s petitions? Were they just being nice?

Mike Kasper, the elections lawyer for the 13th Ward, said his side has filed objections to Krupa’s petitions of candidacy and “we’ll wait for the elections board to take it up when it does.”

Pressed about the large number of revocation petitions, Kasper said he's aware of the issue, but that “it is my practice to decline comment on any pending litigation.”

There is no litigation, yet, but election attorney Michael Dorf, who is representing Krupa, says this case is a “clown car of felonies.”

“You know the 13th Ward better than I do,” Dorf said. “This is clown school and election fraud. This is going way, way beyond the line. David is a huge underdog. Go ahead and beat him on Election Day, or do subtle fraud, like taking away yard signs, but when this number of false affidavits are filed, you’re talking fundamental fraud, epic fraud.

“We turned in 1,703 signatures. We compared them to the 2,796 revocations, and found only 187 matches, meaning only 187 people who signed David’s petitions filed revocations,” Dorf said. “So, what about the 2,609 people who didn’t sign for David but who filed revocations? That’s fraud. That’s perjury. That’s felony.”

[OCS: The fix is in … just like on the national scene where the Democrats engaged in massive criminality and were protected by other Democrats in office, we find the same thing playing out once again. Wrongdoing by Democrats does uninvestigated and unpunished.]

Dorf said that he will ask the elections board next week to refer the matter to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. But Foxx, a Democrat, won’t want to anger the Boss.

Neither will incoming Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who famously said he would not “go fishing” for corruption, and who also received a million dollars in Madigan political money.

And current Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, is the Boss’ daughter.

[OCS: Who will investigate the investigator?

Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office is investigating Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration’s response to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at a Downstate veterans home that left more than a dozen veterans dead over several years, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

“We are investigating whether any laws were violated in the response to the risks of and outbreak of Legionella at the Quincy veterans’ home, where many people died,” Madigan spokeswoman Maura Possley said in a statement. “There needs to be an investigation to determine if laws were violated and whether residents of the home, their families, veterans’ home staff, and the public were informed in a timely and appropriate manner.”]

This is Chicago, where the Davids get crushed by the Goliaths. And where the boss is the boss.

And this scenario is repeated over-and-over again in areas where the Democrats have become the keepers of the inner city and simply siphon of taxpayer money before it can remedy the grievances that the Democrats promise to remedy in return for political power. Along with control over the unions, handing out government jobs, one might say that the Democrats have truly surpassed the organized crime figures that dominated the city in the days of Al Capone.

It’s a cancer, it is malignant, and it is metastasizing…

Bottom line…

You cannot trust Democrats to govern with accountability and transparency. And if there is any constant in the party it is the promotion of systemic racism, sexism, and homophobia for the purposes of gaining or maintaining political power.

In the present case, it will not be feasible to charge all of these people with a serious felony as they are busy emptying out the prisons and creating a new cohort of voting democrats, previously-convicted felons. It is no wonder that the County is known as Crook County and even the most egregious violations by Democrats are ignored.

We are so screwed.

-- steve

"The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane." -- Marcus Aurelius

“A people that elect corrupt politicians, imposters, thieves, and traitors are not victims... but accomplices” -- George Orwell

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WHY DEMOCRATS CANNOT BE TRUSTED WITH ELECTIONS ON ANY LEVEL

Why should we be surprised when billions of dollars targeted at remedying the illiteracy, poverty, disease, and crime somehow wind up in the pockets of politically-connected politicians? Or why Chicago politicians bleat about racism, police brutality, and do absolutely nothing to clean up the inner city cesspools where people, mostly in the minority community, are slaughtered on a weekly basis? Why did our first black U.S. Attorney General, Eric Holder, ignore the systemic abuse of fellow blacks and others in Chicago while going after institutional racism? And why should we be surprised when Democrats interfere in local, state, and federal elections?

Here is how the Democrats engage in provable election fraud they say does not exist…

A college kid running for 13th Ward alderman gets a lesson in the Chicago Way

The David is David Krupa, 19, a freshman at DePaul University who drives a forklift part time. He’s not a political powerhouse. He’s just a conservative Southwest Side teenager studying political science and economics who got it in his head to run for alderman in a race that pits him against the most powerful ward organization in Chicago.

The Goliath is the 13th Ward Democratic Organization run by House Speaker Michael J. Madigan, aka Boss Madigan, the most powerful politician in the state. Boss Madigan has long hand-picked his aldermen. He likes them loyal and quiet. The current silent alderman of the 13th Ward is Marty Quinn.

“I’m from Clearing,” Krupa told me. “All I want to do is get on the ballot to address the serious issues we have, from public safety to taxes. People don’t want to say things out loud here. People who’ve challenged the 13th Ward get intimidated. You know the neighborhood.”

To get on the ballot, Krupa was required to file 473 valid signatures of ward residents with the Chicago Board of Elections. Krupa filed 1,703 signatures.

But before he filed his signatures with the elections board, an amazing thing happened along the Chicago Way.

An organized crew of political workers — or maybe just civic-minded individuals who care about reform — went door to door with official legal papers. They asked residents to sign an affidavit revoking their signature on Krupa’s petition.

Revocations are serious legal documents, signed and notarized. Lying on a legal document is a felony and can lead to a charge of perjury. If you’re convicted of perjury, you may not work for a government agency. And I know that there are many in the 13th Ward on the government payroll.

More than 2,700 revocations were turned over to the elections board to cancel the signatures on Krupa’s petitions. Chicago Board of Elections officials had never seen such a massive pile of revocations.

“The board has received a few revocations here and there in very rare electoral board cases over the years,” said election board spokesman Jim Allen.

But more than 2,700? Impossible, no?

“They're pretty rare, and no one can remember anything approaching this volume of filings in past cases,” Allen said. “For the board, the next step is to begin the hearings on all of the objections that have been filed against any candidates' nominating petitions. We can't speculate, though, on the legitimacy or any other legal questions about any of the objections or the corresponding petitions.”

The number of revocations far exceeds the number of signatures Krupa collected. That means false affidavits were filed with the elections board.

Why would thousands of people lie on a legal document of revocation, and say they’d signed Krupa’s petitions, when they didn’t sign Krupa’s petitions? Were they just being nice?

Mike Kasper, the elections lawyer for the 13th Ward, said his side has filed objections to Krupa’s petitions of candidacy and “we’ll wait for the elections board to take it up when it does.”

Pressed about the large number of revocation petitions, Kasper said he's aware of the issue, but that “it is my practice to decline comment on any pending litigation.”

There is no litigation, yet, but election attorney Michael Dorf, who is representing Krupa, says this case is a “clown car of felonies.”

“You know the 13th Ward better than I do,” Dorf said. “This is clown school and election fraud. This is going way, way beyond the line. David is a huge underdog. Go ahead and beat him on Election Day, or do subtle fraud, like taking away yard signs, but when this number of false affidavits are filed, you’re talking fundamental fraud, epic fraud.

“We turned in 1,703 signatures. We compared them to the 2,796 revocations, and found only 187 matches, meaning only 187 people who signed David’s petitions filed revocations,” Dorf said. “So, what about the 2,609 people who didn’t sign for David but who filed revocations? That’s fraud. That’s perjury. That’s felony.”

[OCS: The fix is in … just like on the national scene where the Democrats engaged in massive criminality and were protected by other Democrats in office, we find the same thing playing out once again. Wrongdoing by Democrats does uninvestigated and unpunished.]

Dorf said that he will ask the elections board next week to refer the matter to Cook County State’s Attorney Kim Foxx. But Foxx, a Democrat, won’t want to anger the Boss.

Neither will incoming Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul, who famously said he would not “go fishing” for corruption, and who also received a million dollars in Madigan political money.

And current Illinois Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, is the Boss’ daughter.

[OCS: Who will investigate the investigator?

Democratic Attorney General Lisa Madigan’s office is investigating Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner’s administration’s response to an outbreak of Legionnaires’ disease at a Downstate veterans home that left more than a dozen veterans dead over several years, a spokeswoman said Wednesday.

“We are investigating whether any laws were violated in the response to the risks of and outbreak of Legionella at the Quincy veterans’ home, where many people died,” Madigan spokeswoman Maura Possley said in a statement. “There needs to be an investigation to determine if laws were violated and whether residents of the home, their families, veterans’ home staff, and the public were informed in a timely and appropriate manner.”]

This is Chicago, where the Davids get crushed by the Goliaths. And where the boss is the boss.

And this scenario is repeated over-and-over again in areas where the Democrats have become the keepers of the inner city and simply siphon of taxpayer money before it can remedy the grievances that the Democrats promise to remedy in return for political power. Along with control over the unions, handing out government jobs, one might say that the Democrats have truly surpassed the organized crime figures that dominated the city in the days of Al Capone.

It’s a cancer, it is malignant, and it is metastasizing…

Bottom line…

You cannot trust Democrats to govern with accountability and transparency. And if there is any constant in the party it is the promotion of systemic racism, sexism, and homophobia for the purposes of gaining or maintaining political power.

In the present case, it will not be feasible to charge all of these people with a serious felony as they are busy emptying out the prisons and creating a new cohort of voting democrats, previously-convicted felons. It is no wonder that the County is known as Crook County and even the most egregious violations by Democrats are ignored.